Background: Patients with asthma and opioid use disorder (OUD) experience higher rates of acute exacerbation, but the effects of OUD on asthma hospitalizations have been poorly described.
Objective: To explore how concurrent OUD may affect the clinical outcomes of adult patients hospitalized for asthma.
Methods: Using the National Inpatient Sample, adult patients admitted for asthma with concomitant OUD were identified and compared with those without OUD.
Unlabelled: is a bacterium that usually causes pulmonary disease but can rarely present with extrapulmonary manifestations, such as rhabdomyolysis. This is a case of Legionella infection with significant rhabdomyolysis but a lack of acute kidney injury. A 38-year-old male with a history of epilepsy presented to the emergency department after a seizure episode with confusion, fever, emesis and bruises.
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